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Posted on 04/19/2005 11:56:55 AM PDT by MadIvan
Cardinal Ratzinger on the Banishment of God From Public Life
Receives St. Benedict Award for Promotion of Life and Family
SUBIACO, Italy, APRIL 12, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger says that believers are faced with the tendency to banish God from public life and confine him to the "subjective realm of past residual cultures."
On April 1, when receiving the St. Benedict Award for the Promotion of Life and the Family in Europe, conferred by the Subiaco Foundation for Life and the Family, the dean of the College of Cardinals delivered an address on the present crisis of culture and identity, especially in the Old World.
After stating that "moral force has not grown apace with the development of science but, on the contrary, has diminished," Cardinal Ratzinger explained that "the most serious danger at this time is precisely the imbalance between technical possibilities and moral energy."
He gave two examples: the threat of terrorism and the possibility to manipulate the origin of human life.
The then prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith—almost all heads of Vatican dicasteries lost their posts when John Paul II died— pointed out that "Europe has developed a culture that, in a way previously unknown to humanity, excludes God from the public consciousness, either by denying him altogether or by judging that his existence cannot be demonstrated, is uncertain and, therefore, somewhat irrelevant to public life."
An attempt is being made "to build the human community absolutely without God," the cardinal stressed.
"The rejection of reference to God is not an expression of tolerance which wishes to protect non-theist religions and the dignity of atheists and agnostics, but rather an expression of the desire to see God banished definitively from humanity's public life, and driven into the subjective realm of residual cultures of the past," he warned.
For the cardinal, the starting point of this view is "relativism," which has become "a dogmatism that believes it is in possession of the definitive knowledge of reason, and with the right to regard all the rest as a stage of humanity, which has basically been surpassed, and which can be suitably relativized."
At this rate, Cardinal Ratzinger added, we will no longer "be able to affirm that homosexuality, as the Catholic Church teaches, is an objective disorder of the structure of human existence."
"The fact that the Church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women, is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution," he added.
In the final part of his address, Cardinal Ratzinger explained that "we need roots to survive and we must not lose them from sight if we do not want human dignity to disappear."
"Only creative reason, which has been manifested in the crucified God as love, can really show us the way," he said. "We need men who will keep their sight on God, learning there" what "true humanity" is, as "only through men touched by God, can God again be close to men." ZE05041102
Only the Left, which seeks to make man's lusts and passions "God", does not want God. They just got informed (again) that God is here anyway.
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Most excellent observations, friend.
Well, they knew that the pro-liberal malcontents were not the Church anymore, they rarely attend, attack it every chance, and they are essentially CINO (Catholic In Name Only--I know I'm wearing out the xINOs, but this definitely applies), so they made the decision based on the holy spirit, although I'm sure that they had in mind someone that truly represents the flock, the loyal Catholics...
O.S.B. = Order of St. Benedict...
yup sounds like a Benedictine to me...
See The Pontifical Mass of Cardinal Ratzinger In Weimar
I think it would. The danger is the number of American Catholics who have already lost the Faith. The numbers are significant. They would go with a schism and we would see a full counter church almost instantly. The wheat and the tares would be exposed.
The SSPX and independents are already used to Mass in exile. I suspect(hope) if that happened, and probably before, Ratzinger would unite the trad factions in a second. Along with FSSP and ICK we could pick up numbers given a higher visibility. The Catholic clergy left in Rome know who is loyal and who is not, despite their disagreements.
Ratzinger will have to choose. There can no longer be a middle ground.
I agree...and I'm not Catholic but I still rejoice at the selection of the new Pope. May God guide him in being the voice that may save ALL Christian churches.
Ratzinger is a Benedictine???!! How did we miss this??
Why not apply evolution to the Papacy.
Everyone should know what the rock is. It isn't Peter.
You're not making any sense. This is a happy occasion, so I'll ignore your obvious weirdness.
So you support monarchies over democracy.
Interesting.
Not to say support of democracy, but one could conclude that you would have called the founding fathers evil for fighting against "tradition and monarchy".
I'm not seeing anything on that link, lol ;-)
interesting. thanks.
See post #134 above.
Is that what the church taught?
"Ratzinger is a Benedictine???!!"
Not that I know of. However, I am convinced that the reason he has taken the name Benedict is that St. Benedict is the patron saint of Europe and JPII was consistently invoking him for the re-evangelisation of Europe.
I'm sure this will be at the heart of Ratzinger's agenda. Time to clean out the filth!
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